About six months ago i installed MRTG through the following rpm

mrtg-2.9.17-1cpanel.i386.rpm

a few days before i installed mailscanner-mrtg

MailScanner-4.22-5.rpm.tar.gz

They both worked fine, but today i noticed that mrtg was not working, but mailscanner-mrtg was working fine, i came to the forums to find what was going on, and by mistake i installed the following mrtg

mrtg-2.9.17-4ct.i386.rpm

which is for exim, then i rpm -e mrtg to unistall it, and ran again the first rpm, but when i try to start the service i recive the following error.

root@gaudi [/temporales/mailscanner]# service mrtg start
Starting MRTG: Daemonizing MRTG ...

root@gaudi [/temporales/mailscanner]# ERROR: I Quit! Another copy of mrtg seems to be running. Check /etc/mrtg/mrtg.pid

how can i uninstall all of my mrtg installations to correct this error??
tnks.

#locate mrtg

see if there is another mrtg folder. If not try

#killall -9 mrtg
maybe it was somehow able to keep running even after the uninstall

eth00:

root@gaudi [~]# whereis mrtg
mrtg: /etc/mrtg

root@gaudi [/etc/mrtg]# dir
./ ../ aux/ mailscanner-mrtg.cfg mailscanner-mrtg.ok mrtg.ok mrtg.pid

root@gaudi [~]# killall -9 mrtg
mrtg: no process killed

i have tried once again rpm -e mrtg but without success, any idea how to remove it?

Delete the /etc/mrtg/mrtg.pid file and that should fix the problem. The pid file is still there so it thinks that mrtg is still running.

deleting /etc/mrtg/mrtg.pid worked

thanks eth00